Page 473 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

This is samadhi in the waking state itself and not that which involves the loss of normal consciousness due to the supervening of what is known as super consciousness. This is the Sahaja Avastha whereas the other obtained through the usual rajayoga or hatha-yoga or even the kundalini yoga is abnormal or asahaja. The divine man is a normal God conscious being. Trance is not a necessity for this, though possibly it is needed when one wishes to do super normal feats, clairvoyance, clair - feats so to speak. Siddhis perhaps demand utilisation of the thought powers in diverse ways demanding different techniques. Since they are not the goal of Sahaja samadhi, they are avoided by the teacher or guru to prevent the diversion into employing them. The Guru assures the abhyasi however that they are possible to the sahaja satsanghi. One goes beyond them and they are of no use to him. It would be wrong to hold that siddhis are the real pointers to spiritual evolution, even when they are intended to be used for world welfare, and in a disinterested manner.
One gets one's direction from the Centre in its purest thought and by that one lives and moves and has his being.
The pathway taken up on the ascent according to Sri Ramchandraji is not the usual path of ascent by the same route by which the descent of degradation took place. For one reason it is difficult. The usual way is to affirm that one must raise up the kundalini through the susumna in the spinal cord through the several plexuses upto the Sahasrara at the crown of the head and take it beyond the Brahma-randhra so as to connect it with the Brahman. This route is that which belongs to kala-cakra. It is difficult. Further the accounts of the beginning of the susumna are not identical. Some hold that it begins with the heart and takes one to the Brahma-randhra through which the soul leaves the body on attaining liberation.
Starting with the heart into which the divine thought is placed (pranahuti), the abhyasi is started on his spiritual journey in the pinda-pradesh and heart region as mentioned in the Efficacy of Rajyoga. The journey takes one to the point of the atma and then to point of devotion, and to fire-point, and vayu or point of air (which is identical with throat). Whereas the cakras or the tantras are placed in the rear, these pointers are all in front. Then the journey takes one to the point at the top of the forehead called the cit-lake.